The Walt Disney Company

Lead Software Engineer – C++

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Seattle • California, Connecticut, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $163,100 - $218,700 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSJenkinsWebpack

About the role

  • Rapidly prototype and implement scalable, reliable, and maintainable media applications using C++ and other technologies.
  • Work closely with UX designers, product managers, and engineering leadership to build best-of-class, delightful streaming experiences.
  • Collaborate with other developers to build, review, and deliver modern media applications to Samsung, LG, and other streaming-media devices.
  • Use data and experimentation to reinforce the value of new product functionality, ensure that we are providing the best experience possible for our viewers, and continuously improve our applications.
  • Adding platform observability and interfacing with partners/clients.
  • Triaging bugs from open beta, prioritizing and helping to fix those bugs as needed.
  • Provide mentorship to junior software engineers.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in front-end application development with proficiency in writing optimized C++
  • Leadership, the ability to identify problems and drive towards solutions, and an eagerness to learn and teach new technologies & solve novel problems.
  • A deep understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, etc.).
  • Experience developing sophisticated user interfaces in a large and organized codebase.
  • Work samples demonstrating experience in building great user interfaces.
  • Experience with our common development tools such as: GitHub, Jenkins, Webpack, AWS, Confluence, JIRA.
  • Experience building applications backed by web-services is a plus.
  • Experience developing for Samsung, LG, or similar devices is also a plus.
  • Strong experience with Scrum methodology.
Benefits
  • A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.
  • Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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